UK Loses £9 Billion of Tax Due to Laxer Enforcement in Pandemic

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : HMRC collected £731.1 billion in tax in 2021-22.
49% : The NAO estimated it received £7.5 billion less in tax from compliance work that year compared to pre-pandemic levels, after recouping £1.5 billion less in 2020-21.
48% : The report highlights the potential gains to the public purse from stepping up efforts to close the so-called "tax gap" between tax owed and levies received by HMRC.
35% :Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's ruling Conservatives have also been accused of wasting money the government does raise in tax, with billions of pounds written off to fraud on Covid-19 assistance programs, and ongoing controversies over allegations a Conservative peer and other figures with Tory links making money from government contracts during the pandemic.

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